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Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.
My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.
Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.